Hi Andre,
Tried it, no success.
Thanks,
Ben
On 12/01/2011 13:55, Andre Garzia wrote:
> Ben,
>> have you tried the select with the substring?
>> andre
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Ben Rubinstein<benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Andre. However, the size of these fields is not that great -
>> probably less than 1K - and in our test database it's just a few bytes.
>>>> Has anyone else experience with accessing ntext fields from SQL Server over
>> ODBC - using Rev/LiveCode or anything else?
>>>> TIA,
>>>> Ben
>>>> On 12/01/2011 13:17, Andre Garzia wrote:
>>>>>> Ben,
>>>>>> I have no clue whatsoever what ntext fields are but you could try a
>>> combination of the following stuff:
>>>>>> You can try executing this Transact-SQL piece on a query to the server:
>>>>>> SET TEXTSIZE 64512
>>>>>> This will change the amount of text returned by a SELECT into a ntext
>>> or nvarchar field.
>>>>>> If you the upper limit of the size of your text, you can try selecting
>>> it as a substring such as:
>>>>>> SELECT SUBSTRING(myfield, 1, 4096) AS myfield FROM mytable
>>>>>> Now, I never faced such issues but then again, I seldon do windows and
>>> the last time I've dealt with MS SQL Server was in 1999...
>>>>>> Andre
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